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mircea_popescu: similarily, the "invading mexican" is the son of a woman who moved there in the 50s barefoot and married the police chief.
mircea_popescu: this is entirely correct, "black thug" is generally the neglected son of a respectable black accountant with an earned college degree.
mircea_popescu: lafond makes a great point at some point, that "violence" in the millitant style the us represents it as is principally a product of the second sons of a favoured class.
mircea_popescu: i would offer it as a fact that there's more people within the contiguous 51 states (bahamas addedone, what!) on whom the irs dun work than there's webdevelopers.
trinque: guy roughed up a girl he liked so he carved his lungs out
trinque: I recall having a neighbor from $southernshithole a while back
mircea_popescu: "is there such a thing as a white man left in the new world ? or did the redskins totally eat the colonists"
ben_vulpes: anyways, asciilifeform is there a particular thing you're citing or just "moi moi, uber alles"?
trinque: it'll piss the people who voted him in off quite a bit.
asciilifeform: in other 'news' -- 'modern watergate' etc. 'woman state' will remove mr.t, seems quite clear. even as a figurehead, too much of an irritant
mircea_popescu: decade ago or so. anyway, it's a subculture, inconsequential as it may be. in certain ways infinitely more authentic than the alternative interpretations.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was a thing in the sense gayness was a thing. before the boring lametards got their grubby culturally appropriative hands on it, meausred in ppm but present.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Huffing has been a thing since sad man first found petroleum seep
asciilifeform: because i have a distinct memory of a piece re 'sniffing' being wholly unknown until popularized by a certain nyt piece (wholly fabricated 'threat-or-menace?' hackjob)
mircea_popescu: there's that picture of the naked kid sniffing from a bag in bucharest cca 2000 that gave it iconic status
mircea_popescu: depends. became a niche thing pre 70s ; otherwise during the 90s
ben_vulpes: it's a scratch-and-sniff
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: max was total annual premiums for a "bronze" plan
mircea_popescu: what you mean is, "if you're not trying to run a small business"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that's also a rather dubious strategy.
ben_vulpes: "what income? this other business showed a perfectly-offsetting loss."
asciilifeform: there was a mircea_popescu thread ! and possibly whole article also
mircea_popescu: this is altogether dubious as a theory.
ben_vulpes: robust tax strategy is a wall of pittances.
ben_vulpes: "health savings account" is an account into which someone on specific kinds of health insurance plans may deposit a maximum of 3 or 6ish shibux per annum
asciilifeform: what's 'max out' here? i slept in a cave, and have genuinely nfi
ben_vulpes: it's a bezzle hack asciilifeform
asciilifeform: 'Conway, the game’s main character, is put through numerous tough situations that evoke economic despair. In one scene, after he suffers a serious injury, his leg is replaced by a gleaming skeletal prosthetic, and he is vaguely informed that he owes money to a corporation. In another, he descends into a subterranean whiskey distillery staffed by animated skeletons, whom he learns are doomed to
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/M3T2W >> 'These games do not aim to make players feel successful and powerful as conventional video games do, and instead challenge people to look at the world in a different way. Creators of the games said they were more interested in showing the complicated lives of the people and places the world has left behind...'
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/a-t-spea-dosariada/ for the curious.
mircea_popescu: (yes, the problems of the us today played out in romania a decade ago, hurr durr).
mircea_popescu: hitler remains a very instructive illustration of the pitfals of hatred. yes he did destroy the british empire. there's not now nor ever will be any future for the shitheads spawned by that miserable island. the cost however... there's no germany nor will likely ever be one again.
mircea_popescu: they'll never be anything more than a sort of mexicans, i can use them as cumrags but not as germans.
mircea_popescu: testament to how in a dictatorship the whore does a lot better than the engineer.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the greeks are handling the postmodern soup a lot better than eg the germans.
mircea_popescu: though they're trying to corrupt narrative with trump also. just, they're so deeply racist that they won't believe a "citizen" could possibly be anything but insane. sluggish schizophrenia ftw!
asciilifeform finds the ceremonial, null-summing back-and-forth components of usg political circus a mega-snore
ben_vulpes: "house of cards" pissed quite a few 'middle class' murkkans off.
ben_vulpes: decent odds that cutting funding for abortion services abroad is just a prelude to cutting funding for * abroad.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/fsVJ0 >> 'Nearly $1 billion is now frozen in European banks, awaiting a decision by a U.S. district court on the U.S. Justice Department’s forfeiture claim. The assets are subject to U.S. jurisdiction because they were transmitted through U.S. financial institutions on their way to accounts held in Latvia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Ireland, Belgium,
mircea_popescu: old man from omaha seems a perfect candidate.
mircea_popescu: well, 12 billion ~worth~ is a misnomer, but sure.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'Buffett told Charlie Rose in a recent interview that he loaded up on $12 billion worth of stock since the election through the end of January.'
asciilifeform: however what i do not know is whether it is a worse idea than ~block ciphers per se~ !
asciilifeform: if enemy knows that a particular (x,y) come out to a block of, e.g., 0, (via known plaintext), he can store (x,y) for future use
asciilifeform: in other noose, i realized that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-14#1613906 is a bad idea. ☝︎
asciilifeform: what i ~did~ find was a tremendous volume of deliberate, artful obscurantism, e.g. the german linked earlier.
mircea_popescu: there shall be no man-made universals. it's a heathen practice, and it is also inhuman. this means : no "global state" ; no "global id", not for women, not for their children, cows, computers, whatever other livestock.
mircea_popescu: "if you're not a criminal you have nothing to hide"
asciilifeform: in vintage lulz, http://archive.is/4BNQN >> 'Recurring universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), as reported by the smolt hardware profiler client program, had some worried about problems in the kernel RNG. As it turns out, the problem exists in the interaction between Fedora 8 LiveCD installations and smolt – essentially the UUID came from the CD – but it sparked a discussion leading to some
ben_vulpes: "how do you do delivery?" "we just package a whole linux, anything less than that is annoyingly complicated and we can't hire people who know how to do it"
ben_vulpes: my freenode password? give me a break
ben_vulpes: at risk of boringly rehashing a point there is nothing to collect!
mircea_popescu: i mean, literally, that introduction is exactly on par with the misspelled "petition" linked earlier. "there is a rule agains what we're trying to do which is unfortunate (for the rule!) because we wanna do it anyway!"
mircea_popescu: inst rape for as long as the rapists are mostly on the right ; are against violence for as long as we're more likely to be on the receiving end ; and believe the goldwater rule should be respected at all times it prevents the ousting of a libertard!"
mircea_popescu: "Silence from the country’s mental health organizations has been due to a self-imposed dictum about evaluating public figures (the American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 Goldwater Rule). But this silence has resulted in a failure to lend our expertise to worried journalists and members of Congress at this critical time. We fear that too much is at stake to be silent any longer." or in plain words, "we on the left are aga
mircea_popescu: it's not just "laws" in the style of "nobody read this 2k page pile of crap" ; it's not just "regulations", in the style of "whatever random czar and his bureaucracy came up with". there's a struggle to add a further red guard of the revolution! THE COUNTRY'S ORGANISATIONS!
mircea_popescu: anyway. judging by the orwellian reaction of the bedwetters, iraq has every chance of turning into a sort of 1920s spain.
mircea_popescu: apparently it's a very convenient narrative for the adolescent underclass. the mystery and intrigue of being mp seduces them.
mircea_popescu: lol. i ran into a few "owned a fortune in bitcoin" dorks here, also.
asciilifeform: quite a yarn.
asciilifeform: 'Franceschi was vague about his background, but wore a Mao pin, owned a fortune in Bitcoin and spoke seven languages, including Arabic and Kurmanji. With no military experience, he was sent to the front line, where Kurdish defenders were outnumbered perhaps five to one...'
asciilifeform: 'I spent a cold night huddled in a grimy kitchen, befogged with eye-watering quantities of cigarette smoke, while young PKK militants lectured me on the crisis of late capitalism and the American media's sexual exploitation of women.'
mircea_popescu: eh, everything with these faggots is about putting on a show.
phf: i'd say this could be a new look, but she already looks like a williamsburg hipster from 8 years ago
ben_vulpes: i don't have enough compenstors on the ground yet apparently if there's a baby stroller type to be had
ben_vulpes: > threatened to run over one of the deputies with a baby stroller
BingoBoingo: Seems a bit early...
asciilifeform: seems like a bother.
a111: Logged on 2013-11-13 14:20 asciilifeform: we had a beautifully-educational incident with DMSO
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if dmso, there'd be a dead medic or two
asciilifeform: fwiw i am unaware of a poison where (supposing it was strictly wet-rag delivery) you get this.
asciilifeform: 'Malaysian police official Fadzil Ahmat told The Star that Mr Kim had alerted a receptionist, saying "someone had grabbed him from behind and splashed a liquid on his face". But quoted by Malaysian news agency Bernama, the same official said a woman had come at him from behind and "covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid". Earlier reports spoke of a "spray" being used or a needle. His eyes "suffered burns as a result of the
ben_vulpes: a man may be forgiven the odd transmission to otherwise apparently derelict friends' vessels
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/02/14/status-isnt-a-zero-sum-attention-game/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Status isn’t a zero-sum attention game.
asciilifeform: there is no limit to the parallelization (it is exactly (bytes in paylod)/(the block size of the cipher) threads ) but you cannot generate a new ciphertext any faster than your rng will give it to you.
asciilifeform: at least one of the losses, however, is that you now need a serious rng on the transmitter.
asciilifeform: each block ciphrator is now eating what is individually a trng stream.
asciilifeform: i found that one. but i thought there was also another where i suggested a sideways cut of the knot
trinque: hm, yeah. there's a good argument against building a shitty blockchain here.
mircea_popescu: trinque understand the problem with "I will also be piling up the signed material for my records" : if during your lifespan you manage to lose eg a 30yo hdd, because you've built a reviewable system those txn will be reviewable. are you on the hook now for refunds ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: contrairiwise, there's not a lbockchain, ie, ever-growing pile of signed data
danielpbarron: i'm trying to understand when a signature is prefered over a handshake of encrypted unsigned texts
trinque: that adds a step on lobbesbot's side that's unnecessary
danielpbarron: the otp is functionally the same as a signature for the purpose of keeping text unmollested, and also the same in that neither can ensure a message is ever actually received
trinque: also, the OTP dance doesn't by itself confirm that A received B's invoice as it was intended.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 3 you absolutely must pay among there. i hope youbrought a big http://trilema.com/2013/and-then-i-said-to-him-jimmy/
mircea_popescu: it's a 3 party system, see, biller, billee and banker.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the only reason it's signed (by the bot) is so that deedbot can distinguish it from a spoof.
mircea_popescu: and yes, singer = intended recipient ; this way lobbes can make lobbesbot a deedbot account and get paid.
mircea_popescu: yeah trinque something like that. we'd have to nail down a permanent invoice format
danielpbarron: what is the purpose of a signature? generally i mean. because as I understand it, if the goal isn't to make the text public, it is possible to achieve whatever you want through 2 decryptions in the place of 1 signature
danielpbarron: i was thinking a signed thing per auction for the bidder/auctioneer to do something with
trinque: a ok
trinque: lobbes: there will be a human operator running the auction, right?
trinque: I don't see that they need to. Rather, deedbot ought to output regular deeds of the transactions it has processed in a given period (week/month)
lobbes: Other option I guess being I just keep running tabs and bill once a month or somesuch from my local box, signing from there
lobbes: mircea_popescu, regarding lobbesbot billing for auctions: I'm assuming it should be spitting out a signed bill. Problem being that lobbesbot currently sits on VPS, and I don't want my personal signing key to reside on that box. Would it be a bad idea to sign these bills with lobbesbot's key instead?
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking military march for chrissakes. has the last arranger left in this world died, forgotten and alone ?
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck is wrong with these dorks, from bocelli onwards. IT IS NOT A LYRICAL PIECE!!!